Driving greater automation is a process that underlies most every project in the data center. It’s an important business differentiator that can help determine an organization’s success. And like all good things, there are lots of problems that gum it up. Having greater awareness of some of these roadblocks will help you see and address them sooner.

Three of the most common problems you’ll encounter are: long system uptime, manual restarts and dated processes. This post will help you address them and strengthen your automation efforts.

Hybrid cloud is often seen as a “best of both worlds” approach, giving businesses the scalability and agility of the public cloud while also allowing them to host some workloads in their own data centers for cost, security or other reasons. But managing the complexity introduced by a hybrid cloud requires specific skills, many of which employees might lack. Consider taking the following steps to ensure that you have the expertise needed to support a hybrid cloud approach.

When I talk with IT professionals about next-generation backup technologies, I try to focus less on what these solutions are and more on what they help organizations do. The term encompasses a wide range of solutions that can help IT teams solve their pressing data center and business problems. As I talk with clients about…

Security is top of mind for most organizations today. In many IT departments, the security conversation has been going on since two computers were connected onto the same network. The spectrum of approaches goes between “let nothing out or nothing in and we will be fine” or “let somewhere just shy of everything out and…

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Many organizations migrate resources to the public cloud in part because they want to reduce their IT management burdens. By minimizing the footprint of their on-premises infrastructure, they hope to direct their internal IT staff away from routine maintenance and support tasks and toward more strategic projects that create value for the business. So, it…